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I m george howell. cnn newsroom starts now. at 4:00 a.m. on the u.s. east coast, thank you for being with us. before he won the u.s. presidential election, donald trump promised to rip up the paris climate agreement. after he became president of the united states he aimed to made good on that promise announcing the u.s. would back out of the international accord, but this morning that agreement, it is still alive and well . in poland, the delegates put it into action prompting a celebratory jump over the tables and cheers after two weeks of some sleepless nights. those countries which include the united states actually cannot leave the agreement until 2020. let s go live to poland where this conference is taking place. nick payton walsh is there. ....
Deal that s fair. but in poland at an all-important climate conference, that deal is alive and well. the u.s. still on board. delegates from nearly 200 countries okayed the rules to put the paris climate accord into action prompting celebrations as you ll see. those countries, including the u.s., cannot actually leave the agreement untiling 2020. let s go live to poland to that conference. cnn s nic payton walsh has been watching this live. tell us what came out of these agreements. reporter: well, it is certainly a piece of good news frankly for the planet because there was a moment during these last two weeks before negotiations where it was possible people were fearing we wouldn t see this. ....
Take this action. they wanted to have a quick summit with the north korean leader before any summit takes place between the u.s. and north korea. so i think you hasee the president s action prompting china to take action. and perhaps the bellicose language has also caused china to wake up and take this problem very seriously. that s not to say that irresponsible language or tweets are necessarily the best way to get world leaders to pay attention. but they do, in this case, there does seem to be diplomatic activity where there was none before. chief foreign correspondent richard engel for us in london tr us today, thank you. we are watching the white house press briefing room to see how the administration responds to kim jong-un s trip to china. should get started in about 40 minutes from now or so. plus rewriting the rules on ....