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A final draft agreement on tackling global climate change has been | :00:23. | :00:28. | |
presented to delegates, after two weeks of talks | :00:29. | :00:30. | |
The proposed deal includes a target to limit global temperature rises | :00:31. | :00:35. | |
The French Foreign Minister said the pact could represent a 'historic | :00:36. | :00:43. | |
turning point' - but a deal isn't yet completely sealed. | :00:44. | :00:46. | |
Our Science Editor David Shukman is in Paris. | :00:47. | :00:54. | |
I join you at a really critical moment in a marathon process towards | :00:55. | :01:02. | |
what's meant to be the landing of an enormously important agreement. The | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
first the world has ever seen where every country around the globe is | :01:06. | :01:09. | |
taking part in some way in the effort to tackle climate change. | :01:10. | :01:14. | |
Delegates have gathered for what may be the last final session in this | :01:15. | :01:18. | |
process, we're still waiting to see the outcome of this. It's been a | :01:19. | :01:22. | |
long and difficult day, as I've been finding out. | :01:23. | :01:25. | |
Years of talks and haggling that's gone on for three nights running | :01:26. | :01:28. | |
have led delegates up to this crucial moment. | :01:29. | :01:30. | |
And the man chairing the conference, the French Foreign Minister, | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
TRANSLATION: In this room you are going to be deciding | :01:34. | :01:40. | |
But many of those cheering are the very people who have been | :01:41. | :01:55. | |
Then came the French President Francois Hollande. | :01:56. | :02:02. | |
He reminded everyone of what Paris has just been | :02:03. | :02:04. | |
through with the terror attacks a month ago. | :02:05. | :02:10. | |
Ladies and gentlemen, France asks you, France calls | :02:11. | :02:12. | |
on you to adopt the first universal agreement on climate. | :02:13. | :02:19. | |
The first such agreement in our history. | :02:20. | :02:24. | |
This is all about trying to slow the rise in global temperatures, | :02:25. | :02:36. | |
to set a tough target to limit warming has been agreed. | :02:37. | :02:38. | |
A harder question is who should help the poorest countries cope | :02:39. | :02:41. | |
There's a promise of $100 billion a year for them. We will need to see | :02:42. | :02:48. | |
much more money on the table for poor people, we will have to see | :02:49. | :02:52. | |
much better plans to help them. And we have to be prepared for more | :02:53. | :02:57. | |
disaster relief because that is what's coming our way with climate | :02:58. | :03:02. | |
change impacts. At the root of it all, the greenhouse gases blamed for | :03:03. | :03:05. | |
rising temperatures. A new system will review the pledges countries | :03:06. | :03:10. | |
have made to their emissions. The bargaining over this agreement has | :03:11. | :03:15. | |
been far more cooperative than in previous negotiations I've | :03:16. | :03:17. | |
witnessed. Inevitably not everyone is getting what they want out of it | :03:18. | :03:21. | |
but the key thing is whether it does mark a shift to a clearer, low | :03:22. | :03:26. | |
carbon world. Ultimately what matters is the signal this event | :03:27. | :03:32. | |
sends to investors and businesses. Will the big financial funds now | :03:33. | :03:37. | |
pull out of coal? It's the mainstay of power generation in major | :03:38. | :03:40. | |
economies but also the dirtiest fuel. Will the giant car-makers now | :03:41. | :03:46. | |
make a far bigger push to go electric? Will the drive for | :03:47. | :03:50. | |
renewable energy see a real leap in the scale? A lot depends on exactly | :03:51. | :03:54. | |
what is agreed here and whether it's then delivered. | :03:55. | :03:59. | |
What point are they at? Is there are still talking at the moment? Yes, | :04:00. | :04:07. | |
there's a last-minute flurry of puddles and a rumour that the | :04:08. | :04:10. | |
Americans have a problem with a single word, it's the kind of thing | :04:11. | :04:15. | |
that can hold things up because the UN operates by consensus, everybody | :04:16. | :04:19. | |
has to sign up for this. The French have to decide whether to put it to | :04:20. | :04:23. | |
a vote or open up the floor to statements from countries that may | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
have different objections. We're a critical stage and no one is quite | :04:29. | :04:34. | |
sure how it'll pan out. Do you feel it does have the potential to be | :04:35. | :04:39. | |
historic? Because he was using pretty strong words? The word | :04:40. | :04:46. | |
historic is used a great deal and, certainly, if the document is | :04:47. | :04:50. | |
agreed, as the French would like it to be, it would significantly change | :04:51. | :04:55. | |
the course of the global economy. If all the countries that have signed | :04:56. | :04:58. | |
up to it actually do what they promise. It's full of holes, critics | :04:59. | :05:03. | |
say the key motives have been stripped out to make it less | :05:04. | :05:06. | |
meaningful, but it's quite a powerful statement. From 195 global | :05:07. | :05:13. | |
governments, sending out a message, that they do want, in the coming | :05:14. | :05:17. | |
decades, to see a shift away from the dominance of fossil fuels. It | :05:18. | :05:21. | |
remains to be seen exactly how that gets agreed. We will wait and see. | :05:22. | :05:26. | |
The polls have closed in Saudi Arabia - where women have | :05:27. | :05:29. | |
been allowed to vote for the first time. | :05:30. | :05:31. | |
in another first - although restrictions were imposed | :05:32. | :05:35. | |
on campaigning because they weren't allowed to talk to male | :05:36. | :05:37. | |
More than 30 bodies have been discovered on the streets | :05:38. | :05:48. | |
of the capital of Burundi, Bujumbura. | :05:49. | :05:50. | |
The bodies were found a day after attacks on a number | :05:51. | :05:53. | |
of military sites in which 87 people died. | :05:54. | :05:56. | |
Unrest has blighted the east African country since an attempted coup | :05:57. | :06:00. | |
in May, and continued protests against the President. | :06:01. | :06:08. | |
It's one week since floods brought devastation to parts of north west | :06:09. | :06:11. | |
In Cumbria, river levels remain high, and more rain is forecast. | :06:12. | :06:17. | |
But communities are showing their resilience - | :06:18. | :06:19. | |
as Olivia Richwald reports, from Cockermouth. | :06:20. | :06:28. | |
Cumbria put on a brave face today despite the rain continuing to fall. | :06:29. | :06:37. | |
This time a week ago Cockermouth's Main Street was under several feet | :06:38. | :06:42. | |
of water. Up to 700 homes and businesses flooded. Among them, | :06:43. | :06:44. | |
mother and daughter Sheila and Claire raiment, who run adjacent | :06:45. | :06:49. | |
shops in town. They lost thousands of pounds of stock and face huge | :06:50. | :06:55. | |
repair bills. I feel devastated and heartbroken but at the same time | :06:56. | :06:59. | |
we're starting to feel more positive because everyone is pulling | :07:00. | :07:02. | |
together, telling us they are still going to support us and be there for | :07:03. | :07:06. | |
us when we reopen. We want to get back in, don't we, really? They | :07:07. | :07:12. | |
won't be back open until February, today, at least, a chance to do a | :07:13. | :07:16. | |
little business. This time last week, the's Christmas Festival could | :07:17. | :07:21. | |
easily have been cancelled but instead the organisers doubled in | :07:22. | :07:24. | |
size and invited flooded businesses from across the county and invited | :07:25. | :07:32. | |
them to set up stalls for free. This charity from Blackburn have been | :07:33. | :07:35. | |
volunteering all week, today they made house calls giving food to | :07:36. | :07:40. | |
flood victims. Further north, in Carlisle, boxer Amir Khan was also | :07:41. | :07:44. | |
helping out. I didn't think it was going to be as bad as it is, coming | :07:45. | :07:47. | |
here and seeing it physically myself. We have to definitely show | :07:48. | :07:52. | |
our support and tried putting our hand out to these people and see | :07:53. | :07:57. | |
what we can do for them. The army have lent strength and resources, | :07:58. | :08:00. | |
removing ruined possessions from Carlisle's worst hit areas. To date | :08:01. | :08:07. | |
was about Cumbria getting back to normal, but in reality, with shops | :08:08. | :08:11. | |
- The Euro 2016 draw has just that'll take many months. - | :08:12. | :08:20. | |
- The Euro 2016 draw has just taken place in Paris - | :08:21. | :08:22. | |
with England, Wales and Northern Ireland finding | :08:23. | :08:24. | |
who they'll face in the group stage of next year's tournament. | :08:25. | :08:26. | |
Let's cross to our correspondent Richard Conway. | :08:27. | :08:33. | |
bring us up-to-date with what's happening, Richard. It's a draw that | :08:34. | :08:42. | |
will whet the appetite of fans. It's England and Wales drawn together in | :08:43. | :08:47. | |
group B for the Euro 2016 tournament next summer, which means they play | :08:48. | :08:54. | |
each other on June 16. Chris Coleman, Wales manager, wasn't too | :08:55. | :08:56. | |
keen to draw in print, he said he'd rather avoid them, I'm sure England | :08:57. | :09:01. | |
will feel the same way given the form of Wales coming into these | :09:02. | :09:05. | |
championships. And Gareth Bale has been firing the goals, contributing | :09:06. | :09:09. | |
as well. Northern Ireland are playing in the European | :09:10. | :09:12. | |
Championships for the first time, they've been drawn in group D | :09:13. | :09:17. | |
alongside... Group C, I should say, alongside Germany, Ukraine and | :09:18. | :09:20. | |
Poland, a tough group for them playing against the world champions. | :09:21. | :09:25. | |
The other teams in England and Wales group will beat Russia and Slovakia, | :09:26. | :09:30. | |
Russia struggled under Fabio Capello but turned their form around, came | :09:31. | :09:35. | |
back in and qualified. The hosts, France, will open their campaign | :09:36. | :09:40. | |
against Romania on the 10th of June. The draw still ongoing, heading | :09:41. | :09:45. | |
towards the final stages, we'll get the reaction from Roy Hodgson, Chris | :09:46. | :09:49. | |
Coleman and Michael O'Neill, respective managers from the home | :09:50. | :09:52. | |
nations. We'll see what they have to say. England against Wales will be | :09:53. | :09:59. | |
grabbing all the headlines. Thanks for the update, Richard Conway in | :10:00. | :10:00. | |
Paris. There's more throughout the evening | :10:01. | :10:02. | |
on the BBC News Channel, I'll be back with the late news here | :10:03. | :10:10. | |
at 10pm. | :10:11. | :10:11. |