Grandchildren so when they look back and they see what we did here in paris they can take pride in our achievements, let that be the common purpose here in paris, a world that is worthy for our children, a world that is not marked by conflict but cooperation and not by human suffering but by human progress, a world that is safer and more prosperous and more free than the one we inherited, lets get to work. Thank you very much. That was president obama speaking at the Climate Change summit in paris. Your world this morning begins right now this is the moment we finally determined we would save our planet. That is todays top story, tackling Climate Change and president Obama Joining dozens of World Leaders in paris and time is running out to limit Global Warming. Day in court the alleged gunman accused of killing three people at a Colorado Planned Parenthood will face a judge today. On trial jury selection beginning with one of the officers charged in the death of freddie gray in baltimo
Israelis Court Delivers are verdicts against two men accused of killings a palestinian teenager next year. India convinces its citizens to tap into their Precious Investments but not everyone is convinced. Hello there the u. S. President has used his speech at the start of the u. N. Climate conference to call for a meaningful deal on climate change, saying the rest of the world is watching. Cop 21 will take part in intense negotiations of two weeks, hopefully, prevent potentially disastrous climate change. It will then need to come into effect from the year 2020, because thats when the current commitments from the key yoa t o protocol run out. Nick clark reports. The conference ended in abject failure, thats why they brought all the World Leaders in at the start of the conference to really inject some momentum in search of that elusive climate deal. Lets take a look back at whats happened so far. Getting 147 World Leaders to is it down to record the moment for posterity is almost as ha
Accused of killing a palestinian teenager last year. And u. S. President has been using his speech at the start of the u. N. Climate conference to call for a meaningful deal on Climate Change saying in his words the next generation is watching. World leaders have gathered at the conference known, and it will take part in extremely intense negotiation aimed at forging a deal to limit Global Warming and hopefully prevent Climate Change. There are 147 heads of state and government in the opening days of the talks. In total, 25,000 official delegates are hoping to call for a legally binding call for every country to cut carbon emissions. This comes when current commitments to the kyoto agreement ran out. All the World Leaders are saying the right sort of thing. But you have 25,000 people behind the scenes, how do you translate what one group says to what the other group does . Well, you would like to think that the World Leaders would represent their negotiators, and having said what they
This is Aljazeera America live from new york city. Im stephanie sy. Jury selection is now underway in the first trial of a Baltimore Police officer charged in the death that sparked protests in that city. Officer william port hear pleaded not guilty to a number of charges connected with the death of freddie gray. His defense team is concerned he may not get a fair trial. Al jazeeras john terrett is live for us this morning outside the courthouse in baltimore. John, whats at stake for baltimore with these trials . Good morning to you. I think quite a lot. The city is very, very anxious to avoid terrible rioting with lots of africanamerican businesses simply where he could and wiped out in that rioting. They are most keen to try and top that from happening. Tomorrow, it is seven months precisely since charges were filed by the state attorney marilyn moas be. The officer has pleaded not guilty to the charges. Publicity surrounding the case is one of the toughest hurdles facing the accused
Peace in the republic of africa. World leaders are gathering in paris for the oft n climate conference. It is the start of two weeks of intense negotiations aimed at forging a deal to limit globe app warming to 2 degrees c. 1477 heads of state and government are attending the opening day of the talks. In total 250 thousand official delegates are hoping to get a binding accord for every country to cut emissions. This needs to come into effect in 2020 when current commitments to the kyoto protocol cease. Why are heads of state attending the first day rather than the end of this conference . Reporter thats all about boosting momentum because the spectre of copenlagen hangs over everyone here. There was so much hope and expectation for that to secure a deal but that ended in failure. Nobody wants that to head here. Normally they come at the end, but theyre coming at the beginning to give it a boost. President obama will be talking and also president xi jinping because they could be potenti