
COP25: Longest climate talks end with compromise deal
Exhausted delegates reach agreement on the global response to curbing carbon.
The UN climate summit in Madrid ends with a compromise but few of the ambitious, concrete proposals on tackling global warming that some were hoping for.
Also in the programme: Indian police use tear gas and batons to break up protests at a Delhi university against a controversial new citizenship law; and Anna Karina, one of the most acclaimed luminaries of influential French New Wave cinema, has died of cancer at age 79.
(PICTURE: Chilean Environment Minister and President of COP25 Carolina Schmidt and Deputy Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Ovais Sarmad. CREDIT: EPA/zipi)
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