amy: well, fast-forward to 2018 and mohamed nasheed is continuing his quest for climate justice. just a month after returning from exile, nasheed is now leading the maldives delegation here at the climate summit. he is joining us now. welcome back to democracy now! >> thank you for having me. amy: here we are sitting in a convention center that is shaped as a coal mine on an old coal mine site and behind is hundreds of time it activist in what is supposed to be the last day of the talks, though i think they are expected to go until tomorrow. talk about what has been achieved so far and why you are so deeply concerned that these talks are failing. nation,mall island there are a number of low-lying countries. climate change is not something in the future. it is happening. it is happening at the moment. we of coastal erosion. we have issues with water. we have food security issues. we have a number of climate impacts that are being felt right now. for us it is not in the future. we have to have an understanding in this conference of the parties. this is the 24th conference of the par

conference an emergency press conference they called from the small island states we heard from mohamed nasheed who's head of the multis dedication as saying deeply unhappy with the way the talks ahead of the grenada delegation saying all we really are for a consensus of the lowest common denominator or a decision that is truly indicative of the reality the world faces the u.n. general i'm tony harris is being here trying to achieve a things along he was here at the start of the talks he was here on wednesday went back to sweden to discuss yemeni issues and now he's back again trying to find a way forward this is the text that. this is a text that they're currently working on it was worked on overnight and all day long they've been pouring over it and we've just had a tweet from the president of quote michael. who has said that the new version of this text it will be made available about one o'clock in the morning and then plenary will be cooled which is the main meeting of this conference at four am and at that point will see what everybody thinks about the new text and just how long this conf