30 years later. i want to start. stuart's december 19th. w. . this is deja vu news live from berlin the final words in madrid negotiations wrap up at the un climate conference but delegates failed to agree on key issues like how to regulate carbon markets 2 days after the summit was scheduled to end delegates did manage to reach agreement on some of the contentious point. also coming up tensions flaring again in hong kong pro-democracy demonstrators and police clash in shopping malls several protesters have been arrested our correspondent is on the scene with the latest. and both china and the u.s.

step back from the brink of an all out trade war just as the deadline for punitive tariffs both sides what their plans on hold. so much god that's good to have you with us marathon u.n. climate talks in madrid are ending with agreement on some key points but the most contentious issue is still on the result after more than 2 weeks negotiators have failed to deliver a firm agreement on how to handle carbon markets where big emitters can buy the right to pollute from countries that emit less than their fair share delegates from almost 200 countries past declarations calling for and vicious climate protection targets but a decision on rules for regulating carbon emissions is now postponed until next year. and let's listen to what the president of coc 25 catalina schmidt had to say

in her closing remarks. the main thing i think of course it is sad that we didn't reach a final agreement that we were this close. i appreciate all the effort and the long hours that we've invested trying to achieve it we were so close. but as many of you know today we have taken concrete steps forward with concrete resolutions that fill us with hope hope that we are now closer to establishing carbon market rules and. a base with ecological integrity that considers the needs of everyone the implementation we so desperately need and one that respects the different requirements of the countries. we have to move ahead faster and better. louise osborne has been covering the conference for us in madrid and she joins us for more hi louise can

you explain to us what exactly has been decided and what has not. so what they basically decided was that they wanted to enhance the ambition to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in countries all over the world this was something that n.g.o.s and civil sorry civil society were quite happy about they wanted to see countries take that into account at the moment emissions would rise too high even with the targets that countries have said so that was one thing the carbon markets of course as we've just heard. did not work out they were here for 2 weeks trying to come to an agreement and they just weren't able to do that so it's being pushed to next year why couldn't they find agreement on that point. there was some contentious issues around for example double counting so the idea

that a country that was buying. you know carbon credits so that they could have more would be able to count those reductions within their own reductions but then also the country that was selling those emissions might also be able to count them so they were trying to come up with stringent regulation to make sure that these carbon markets would actually have an impact and help with regards to lowering greenhouse gas emissions something that they just couldn't agree on and there were also countries like brazil for example who have old credits under the old system who are hoping to keep those in play and a lot of countries who are against. we're looking at what has come out of this summit on the whole what are the reactions that you've been seeing there are activists so pleased with what's been agreed. i

mean i think activists are less upset than they were yesterday yesterday they were calling the cop an outright failure because there was a document coming through a text where countries were saying that they would just accept the targets that are already been set rather than trying to increase ambitions that was then changed today n.g.o.s said that that is definitely a positive step they're also positive about the fact that carbon markets have been moved on because they don't want to see carbon markets in the paris agreement many of them. so positive in that way but they're still very disappointed they see this as a watered down deal and they want to see concrete action taken and it's not just it's just not being done yet. you know we saw delegates negotiating for more than 2 weeks going into overtime they couldn't reach agreement as you said on the question of carbon markets it begs the question are these types of summits really the way to

drive a global action on climate change. well i think the thing that we have to remember is that these climate conferences bring together almost $200.00 nations which is something that they just wouldn't do normally it also brings the issue of climate change to the forefront you know public view we can all see that it's happening and that is definitely important some people say that perhaps it needs to be changed slightly because obviously the negotiations that were taking place were running into the night delegates were probably not at the best when when talking about these issues maybe that needs to be done more kind of on the sidelines in agreement. rather than just at these conferences. and reporting from the u.n. climate talks there in madrid thank you so much. let's catch up now on some of the

other stories making news around the world at least one person was killed when a 6.9 magnitude earthquake hit the southern philippines island of mindanao dozens of people were injured in the tremor which struck south of the city of buildings were also damaged experts say there is no threat of a tsunami. authorities in the southern city of brindisi have evacuated 54000 people in order to defuse a world war 2 bomb residents living within a 1.5 kilometer radius around the explosive device had to leave their homes police brought in a special robot to dismantle the $200.00 kilo bomb dropped by the british air force . anti-government protesters are once again rallying in hong kong police officers moved in after hundreds of demonstrators gathered in a shopping mall across the city a scuffles broke out between protesters and security force says several people were arrested a wave of pro-democracy demonstrations has been sweeping the city for more than 6 months now the protesters are denouncing police violence and calling for more

autonomy from mainland china. let's let's go right to the scene where our correspondent mathias bellinger is standing by in hong kong with the latest time the tears i can see that you're in a shopping mall there and there have been scuffles taking place what more can you tell us about what's been happening today. these shopping mall protests we've seen them several times before protesters gather in several shopping malls throughout the city each in their own neighborhood and they start chanting slogans singing anthem of the protest movement sometimes they start spray painting or vandalizing shops that police moves in and clashes in this shopping mall where i am now police have we have moved in earlier that nothing was destroyed here but police came in and arrested people and now the protesters have called the manager and they are discussing with him they have been discussing actually for quite some

time now with him asking him to a cone whether he has allowed to the police to come in whether he has called the police and this is still going on at the moment we're right in pre-holiday shopping season mathias is this part of the strategy of protesters. yeah we are in the holiday shopping season and apart from these points where the protesters gather it's pretty much christmas shopping like everywhere in the world but i think what is important here for the protesters is that they want to make a sign that these protests are going on to wreak sicko protest. made a huge victory and local district elections and there is anxiety that once people stop protesting a crackdown from the government and from beijing will follow this is why they are out today again although new not in the same numbers as we've seen before and that

is this all coming as hong kong's leader kerry lamb is actually in beijing right now for talks. the 1st time she's been in there since the pro-democracy candidates won in local elections as you were just mentioning what do you think we can expect from these talks i. think it's her annual meeting in beijing it's she delivers a report to the central government under central government discusses future policies with her of course this year this will be about the protests and what to do about what we've heard so far from beijing from officials in beijing and from the profile gandalf of the communist party. does not lead does expect a change in her approach the protesters have a set of demands one of them has been met that's the withdrawal of this extradition bill that would have a lot extraditions to mainland china that was at the beginning of the protest but beijing does not seem to be wanting to compromise on any of the other demands

including an investigation into the police what caging house unknowns is that they want to. there they want more severe laws being passed on a separate trip to them for example to national security that they want to enhance patriotic education the propaganda efforts in order to control the population all right our correspondent my ts spilling over at the very latest there in hong kong thank you. the u.s. china trade war was set to escalate in a big way today instead the 2 sides have agreed to a partial truth today was the deadline for a new round of tariffs affecting hundreds of billions of dollars worth of product but u.s. president donald trump suspended his and now china has said it will do the same for now the partial ceasefire is a welcome sign for most economists and investors but many questions remain for what's being called phase one of a trade deal between the world's 2 largest economies. and

reporter william know a glue craft. is looking into this story for us he's with us here in studio hi william what effect is china's announcement today how well relief mostly china was going up there tariffs that it already exists and even higher percentage up to 40 percent on cars and car parts that would have hurt automakers all around the world especially german auto makers actually that produced cars in the united states for the chinese market and this is in response to tariffs that also did not come into effect today from the u.s. side the u.s. was going to put more tariffs on $160000000000.00 worth of american goods chinese goods coming to america and unlike previous tariffs that had mostly affected manufacturing these goods today we're going to really hit consumer goods the most especially things we all like like i phones and other consumer electronics so for both consumers and investors there's there's a lot of relief today but the most immediate. realization of this is means anything

or not is usually what mark how markets react on friday markets didn't seem to be very impressed with what was what had transpired we'll see on monday if anything changes there we mentioned that this is being called phase one of a new treaty trade deal how does this fit into the u.s. goals with china when it comes to trade well of course robert light hisor the u.s. trade representative and donald trump himself they're lauding it as saying you know a lot of steps in terms of requirement china to buy more u.s. products including agricultural products more tied to rules and intellectual property protecting intellectual property even a creating a in a forstmann mechanism for for making sure these rules are actually stuck to especially by the chinese side that has a long history of not fulfilling the rules they say they're going to follow but these were these are not the original problems that donald trump has cited going back 2 years or 2 his campaign to 16 for why the u.s. needs to address its trade issues with china the number one issue was the massive amount of state subsidies that china provides its companies that makes chinese

companies almost impossible to compete with because they don't have to face the normal market forces that u.s. and. pm companies as japanese companies have to face so that was the number one issue and that is not really addressed in this phase one but as robert light has or says this is a step we take care of some of these easier things and maybe down the line will take care of the harder ones that still are outstanding looking at the bigger picture here how do politics play into these trade negotiations i mean on the chinese side it's more economic because of course it's a state controlled economy if there are no elections media is controlled so how the chinese people see their government see this trade deal as very very much through a filter the u.s. side they have has a lot of political problems going into campaign 2020 the election his a lot of his base farmers and ranchers they have been hit hard by this trade deal seeing china going from the american farm bureau the 2nd largest market for agricultural products down to the 5th and this is trying to restore trying to go

back to where it was before trump put in all of these tariffs so it's going to come down to which sectors in the us economy are being affected the most are they ones that are for trump or for democrats and that's where this trade war really plays politically the ray davies william know uggla craft with us thank you so much thanks for watching to give you news more at the top of the hour. to today's rule. 97 you know. the historical turning point in politics business really. in the run up evil of the islamic revolution. making its initial flirtation. strikes in states of emergency sinks into chaos. john the 2nd visit.