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well you. this is deja vu news live from berlin the negotiations have ended at the u.n. climate conference and critics are calling them a partial failure in overtime talks 2 days after the summit scheduled and the delegates did manage to reach agreement on some contentious points but they failed to agree on key issues such as regulating carbon markets. tensions flare again in
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hong kong pro-democracy demonstrators and police clashed in shopping malls several protesters have been arrested our correspondent is on the scene with the latest. and china and the u.s. death back from the brink of an all white i'll trade war that could have hurt global economic growth they put their plans for tariffs on hold and just ahead of the deadline. a mixed feister thanks for joining us. marathon u.s. u.n. rather climate talks in madrid have ended with agreement on some key points but the most contentious issues remain on resolved after more than 2 weeks negotiators failed to deliver a firm agreement on how to handle carbon markets that's where big emitters of
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greenhouse gases can buy the right to pollute from countries that emit less than their quota our fair share so the delegates from almost 200 countries passed declarations calling for ambitious climate protection targets but the critical decision on rules for regulating carbon emissions was postponed to next year. they were the longest talks to date leaving representatives exhausted with little progress made on how to limit global warming to under 2 degrees but there was agreement on one issue regretfully at terrel the high work that. couldn't get to an agreement it is my sincere regret we were not able to reach an agreement we invested a lot of energy and find a very fresh. that. at the end of the day we were not able to arrive at a final agreement observers had hoped that cup $25.00 would end with
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a framework for a carbon certificate scheme imposing a tax on each tonne of greenhouse gas produced a con a miss and environmental activists alike say it's a critical step if the world hopes to minimize the impending climate catastrophe but a deal couldn't be reached in part due to resistance from some of the world's worst polluters like the usa china india and australia. forcing delegates to only pledge to do more to uphold the paris climate agreement. with leadership in short supply in madrid environmental activists say it's time for the european union to step up i mean this conference in madrid is really at that point for the entire much of the climate change and it's now up to the european union with the green deal to go ahead with a clear vision of carbon free neutral economy all eyes are now on next year's meeting in glasgow but while the world continues to drag its feet the worst
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predictions of climate scientists have already started to become a reality. board has been covering the conference for us in madrid what's been decided and what hasn't. ok so they have had a discussion about. that they want to raise the targets that each country has set to lower their greenhouse gases they said that they are going to enhance that before next year so that's one thing that they actually managed to decide on but they were not able to decide on a contentious issue of carbon markets something that was right up until the and an issue and so they've pushed that on to next year for the climate conference in glasgow why is this failure to agree on carbon markets such a big a big deal. well they were hoping to include carbon markets as part
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of the paris agreement to allow countries to raise their ambitions with regards to lowering their greenhouse gas emissions they want to get countries to be able to buy and sell carbon but that is something that's proved quite difficult that there are countries for example who are arguing about the issue of double counting which means that which would mean that both. the seller of the carbon would be able to count the reductions which obviously would not help when it comes to overall reduction in carbon emissions so that's something that really trying to get rid of it sounds like cheating what are activists saying about what's come out of cop $25.00. so activists are. well they're positive about the fact that ambitions are going to be raised for next year that's something that they really wanted to happen and something that they thought was not going to get through so that was one thing but they're very
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disappointed at what they see as the watering down of the final text they want countries to be taking concrete action and that's something that's just not happening yet. ok. thanks much for that. to take a look at some of the other stories making news around the world. at least one person was killed when a 6.9 magnitude earthquake hit the island of mindanao in the philippines dozens of people were injured in the tremor which struck south of the popular city of. buildings were also damaged experts said however there was no threat of a tsunami. local residents in northeast nigeria say fighters from the militant group boko haram have killed 19 cattle herders witnesses say the jihadists attacked a village near the border with cameroon a cattle ranchers were shot while trying to stop the jihadists from stealing their
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livestock. and she government protesters have once again rallied in hong kong police officers moved in after hundreds of demonstrators gathered in shopping malls across the city scuffles broke out between protesters and security forces leading to several arrests a wave of pro-democracy demonstrations has swept the city over the past 6 months the demonstrators are protesting police violence calling for more autonomy from mainland china and our correspondent is building or is there for us we asked him what message the protestors are trying to send. yeah we are in the holiday shopping season and upon from these points where the protest is it's pretty much christmas shopping like everywhere in the world but i think what is important here for the protest is is that they want to make a sign that these protests going on 2 weeks ago protest. made
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a huge victory in local district elections and there is anxiety that once people stop protesting a correct own from the government and from beijing will follow this is why they are out today again although not in the same numbers as we've seen before. search crews on new zealand's island of cari or white island have failed to find the bodies of the last 2 victims of an eruption that killed 15 people conditions forced recovery teams to call off the search after just over an hour but crews will resume another search later on sunday. hold on hold a new zealand's white island rescue teams and protective gear landed where they believe one of the 2 remaining victims of the island's volcanic eruption would be found they were unsuccessful. absolutely disparate to find bodies and return them call up ones and turn to probability ideas we were we were probably
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thinking given that one was in the water that so i would tell you. that we were as hopeful as we do this for a reason we want to make sure that we bring the right expertise to be a with regard to the task of pain that expertise including $24.00 person recovery teams toxic unstable conditions and air takes allowed the 2nd search on the island to last only 75 minutes the result was a setback but crews won't give up. as a body blow for us and i'm sure been confident as a bodyguard for the families that are still watching. little kaito has been a popular tourist destination for day trippers but interrupted on monday spewing ash and gas 47 people and their guides were exploring the island when it happened the death toll has reached double digits and is expected to rise as more than 2 dozen people are still cost but allies most with severe burns on saturday space
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contaminated waters and poor visibility after one body was spotted in the water we knew there were the we saw them and. we don't know what happens the board is the notion that it's just a thought and it's. current. conditions on the island are still volatile but military and police crews will continue searching land and water and hopes that allowing loved ones to bury their dead. the u.s. china trade war was set to escalate in a big way today instead the 2 sides have agreed to a partial troops sunday was the deadline for a new round of tariffs affecting hundreds of billions of dollars worth of products but u.s. president donald trump suspended his plan taxes on certain chinese imports and now china has said it will reciprocate many economists and investors have welcomed the
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partial cease fire but there are still big questions to be asked about what's being called phase one of the trade deal between the world's 2 largest economies. william noah blue croft has more on this thanks for joining us william. what is the effect likely to be of this big deal i mean mostly right now it's relief and a lot of weight in sea off and the most instant reaction we get for how investors are thinking about any potential changes in trade deals is the markets and friday we saw it was u.s. markets are rather mixed they were unimpressed welterweight told markets open on monday to see if this new announcement today from china has any big impact but everyone is pretty much on the same page that anytime there's a reduction in tariffs or in some in this case some removal of tariffs is only a good thing in a much longer path towards a more substantive trade deal between the u.s. and china next question they're calling this phase one where does this fit into the
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overall picture how many faces what's happening i mean it's unknown how many phases there might be in phase one is not even really set yet i mean it's not even any announcement when it's really going to be signed it's just been agreed to so far maybe the end of january looking at for just this so-called phase one is not even really a trade deal with the unocal it's really more of a purchase agreement in exchange for the u.s. removing some tariffs and lowering some tariffs china agrees to buy more agricultural products and other products from the u.s. so it's a long way to go and anything comprehensive between between the u.s. and china and also the u.s. is big right donald trump's big gripe with china without it that china is overly subsidizing and really controlling its economy centrally which makes it really hard if not impossible for us and companies all around the world to compete with with china that this so-called phase one doesn't address at all and how much does
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domestic politics in china but especially the united states play into this announcement and its timing of course it's all about timing all about politics in china not so much politically but economically because their economy has been struggling has been sluggish and. i have a lot to do with that the u.s. side a lot of these tariffs have hurt traditional republican and trump areas especially in the farming in the ranching sector agribusiness has donated already in the 2020 campaign 730000 dollars to the trump campaign that's twice as much as the next closest democratic candidate receiving ag agribusiness donations and farmers want to see progress on trade in progress on on competitiveness would chime in be able to go back to where they were before all these tariffs came in which was china as the 2nd largest market for agricultural products the united states now down to the 5th largest they want to see that either come back or at least see that that they're what they're hurting from having some long term effect for their business and their farms ok and we'll just have to see as is often the case i think with the
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white house how real is really is and what effects come about in the long way to go ok thanks for that said he did these women know the growth sunday's early bonus leah game is in the can so let's take a look at all the results so far will spur back in a defensive battle leipzig had their way with buyer deval ist bremen georgia berlin snuck past freiburg dortmund took down my cologne upset liver cuban powder born drew is barely in on friday night beat hoffenheim underway now are taking on frankfurt. and you are of course washington to be news coming up world stories a week and reports and we leave you though with some spectacular scenes of surfers battling giant waves at the jaws big wave championship on the hawaiian island of maui 1st up is a wipeout by jamie mitchell of australia from the incredible height of 15 meters
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