Industry is running so fast that this city is running out of spots to berth the ships a new global deal is getting closer. The final text is expected to be released within hours. The French Foreign minister says he is home for an agreement. This comes after years of tough negotiations. Nations first agreed to cut Greenhouse Gas emissions in 1997. Thats when the kioto protocol was signed in japan, but the u. S. Didnt support it and developing nations were exempt. They claimed they didnt contribute to global warming, even though china and india were amongst the biggest emitters. By 2009 many felt a new agreement was needed, but the copenhagen failed to bring results. A binding climate treaty was not to be signed. In lemar leaders there agreed on plain for voluntary targets to reduce emissions. Back to paris now and we will cross over to our environment editor nick clerk who is following developments from there. Tell us how close we are to that deal and to that announcement. Reporter pret
Talked about museum in australia, a madonna montage and a machine that deaf defecates. Wait until you see whats behind that. Breaking news out of nigeria. Theres been an attack by fighters in borno state. Troops are currently fighting fighting fighting attackers in mandula. This is where boko haram have launched so knowledge assaults in the last 18 months. I would planning the finger of blame is pointing at them and tell us more about what you know so far. Well thats why the Nigerian Military are saying that they have engaged boko haram fighters who attacked the capital city of borno state midugery, there is no precise number of boko haram fighters that have been engaged by nigerian fighters. This comes just 24 hours less than 24 hours since president Goodluck Jonathan visited there. Parliamentary elections are taking place and some are wondering hmm does this have anything to do with it, the fact that the president was there and there has been disaffection and unhappiness in the way t
Behind the museum. U. S. Secretary of state john kerry has arrived in nigeria for talks about the president ial elections set to take place in three weeks. His visit comes as the army is battling boko haram fighters in two towns in the northeast of the country. Lets talk now live from the capitol of nigeria first the latest attack by boko haram what can you tell us . In the last five minutes weve spoken to an eyewitness on the ground, a member of the civilian joint task force ordinary nigerians helping the military fight boko haram. What our source is saying is that 20 soldiers have been killed within the last one hour. He said he lives near one of the barracks and has seen the firefight take place hips. Earlier, the same individual has told us that civilians have been killed in the crossfire that he had counted at least 10 bodies, including children, and that three to 400 boko haram militants, suspected boko haram militants had basically stormed the area. Its very difficult to indepen
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Talk for about implementing the buffet rule, and, you know, specifically that involves, and i noticed a lot of new York Congress members on the list, but a number are not. Talk about the people not on the list, have you reached out to them . Do you expect all new york members of congress to sign on to them . We started with app effort through the National Congressional caucus and a number of members, and some do not sign pledges. Theres a lot of folks in the congress who make a policy not to sign pledges, but who i reached out to the response was positive. Saw a number of them here today. I think what ewe saw, literally in a few weeks the first meeting was april 2, and were here less than six weeks later and theres been a tremendous response, and i think it indicates that a lot of people who work in this building are looking to join a coalition to make a change at the fundamental level of the politics. Here the problem, they heard from a lot of them they cant change the policies in the